Heavy attack (Destruction staff info)

Captain_Devildog

I'm lost.. Me and my friends have some questions about heavy attacking with a destruction staff. After the last updates there seems to be no actual clear information about this.

1. What does heavy attack damage scales of?
2. How to increase your heavy attack damage?
3. Why is doing 100 increased damage on your heavy attack more than 100 spell damage?
(You have sets that increase your damage on heavy attacks. But if you compare that amount of damage with spell damage or magicka it's not the same).

RaptorRodeoGod

1) Highest base stats (the higher of your max mag/stam combined with the higher of your max weapon/spell damage)

2) Increase your damage stats, wear sets that boost heavies, Empower, and the light/heavy attack CP node.

3) The heavy attack sets ususally have more damage added to heavies compared to sets that give you raw stats. I.e. the +1500 heavy attack damage from Undaunted Infiltrator adds 1500 damage to your heavies, whereas the +300 spell damage from julianos will only add 300 damage to heavies. Also, for channeled heavy attacks, like lightning and resto staff, the damage is added onto every tick, not distributed evenly across the entire channel.

Psiion

Greetings,

We have gone ahead and moved this thread to the Combat and Character Mechanics section as it is better fit there.